Walter Johnson High School - Windup Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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H A V, pfll-. -Q Q- -.wt eff-J-x Executive Council: first row: E. Pechman, S. Bagwell, J. Thompson, Y. Huang: third: B. Helz, P. Vinten-Johansen, D. Levine, B. Towles: second: D. Lam, M, Allen, J. Shapiro, C. Cooper, B. Lurie presided over the SCA and its committees. Leaders irror Myriad pinions Representative Council: first row: A. 0'Neill, B. Towles, F. Sheehan, S. Somes, D. Patterson, J. Wang, second: E. Pech- man, J. Weiss, S. Rich, P. Payne, S. Thomas, C. Thompson, S Riggle, third: M. Sternbaum, T. Simon, M. Runner, B. Rosbe, P. Vinten-Johansen, J. Shapiro: fourth: D. Vartanoff, A. Waks- burg, D. Yates, J. Swartz, B. Pennington sponsored a compre- hensive education survey to determine students' feelings on suggested improvements in the educational system. When the students' suggestions were received, a committee headed by Lloyd Etheredge tabulated the results, and forwarded them to the Montgomery County Board of Education. xr

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Reps Stirredb Proficiency Sheets, Margie Theeman describes her semester in Germany to Ellen Pechman, Lois Magnussen, and AFS exchange student Dal Lam. Representative Council: first row: J. Euler M, Allen K church, J. Levine, J. Bevis, M. A. Matthews, J. Hardy, BI Jenkins, D. Levine, S. Kranzg second: L. Mohr, C. Jerome S. Kenner, A. Blasky, R. Gonzalez, S. Kessel, B. Frosh, Si Miller, S. Bagwell, L. Conway, third: Vice-president Y Huang, P. Barrick, G. Hermann, J. Baxter, B. Law, R. Heald, Once a week, 66 Student Council Representatives met to discuss anything that they considered im- portant. Elected in homerooms because they in- spired confidence in their responsibility, these rep- resentatives found many matters of interest to the school. Thus the meetings included debates on the merits of basketball tournaments, the stadium, and UN Bonds, as well as swimming pools and names for the halls. Despite a few frivolous moments, SCA proved a valuable and worthwhile organization. It provided a forum for student opinion, a creative outlet for those with excess nervous energy, and it was helpful in relieving the administration of small but important tasks. Leading our Student Council through perilous parliamentary waters was the Executive Council, composed of SCA officers and committee chairmen. These fifteen leaders were responsible for directing the activities of the many branches of the complex SCA. They provided ideas and supervised such ac- tions as dances, elections, and fund-raising. S. Kasnett, G. Hembree, L. Etheredge, G. House, M, Feldman, fourth: B. Donahue, B. Helz, L. Beck, D. Clark, D. Rurrill, B. Lurie, P. Lothrop, D. Driver, J. Lowry, R. Hardy engaged in heated discussions on the merits of proposed modifications in the system of honor roll selection, but finally decided that the present system was the only practical one. 144 Activities

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Clubs Cooperate with Putting The Coordinating Council, one of the branches of Student Council, is responsible for organizing and running the club program, embracing over 80 organizations. In addition to assigning bulletin boards to its members for display, the council also was responsible for setting policy on club fund rais- ing activities. This year it decided to modify the general club fund so that only those funds which the clubs raised jointly from such sources as the snack shack went into a central fund, clubs being allowed to keep other funds. The Council, consisting of a representative from each club in the school, was enlarged this year by eight new clubs which were organized under its auspices to meet student demand. The representa- tives of these new clubs joined those of the already established ones in the cafeteria every two weeks to discuss problems common to all the clubs in the school and to vote on projects suggested for it. The representatives then reported the actions of the Council back to their clubs for discussion before final action was taken. One of the biggest jobs this year was managing, with the AFS committee, the second annual Activity Fair for our foreign exchange student. Carol Thompson and Joel Shapiro, armed with lacrosse stick and gavel, Htake up arms in a self-imposed SCA chore 146 Activiti